"Look to the Lady": A Look Back at Female Tony Nominees for Best Director

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06 Jun 2014

Leigh Silverman

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Playbill.com looks at the history of female directors who have received Tony Award nominations.

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Tony nominee Leigh Silverman, who directed the Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed Broadway production of Violet, is the only woman to receive a 2014 Tony nomination for directing a play or musical on Broadway this season. In honor of Silverman's nomination, Playbill looks at previously nominated women who helmed productions on Broadway.

Click through to see some of the female directors who received Tony Award nominations for direction.

Swados received four Tony nominations for 1978's Runaways, a musical about the lives of children who ran away from home and lived on the city streets. Inspired by workshops conducted by Swados with real-life runaways, Swados was nominated for Best Book, Best Original Score, Best Choreography and Best DIrection of a Musical.

Barbara Damashek

Damashek helmed Quilters, a musical about American pioneer women, in 1985, receiving a Tony nomination for Direction. Damashek also received nods for Score and Book of a Musical.